Day #5 of year 2...

Didn't make it very far in my walk today, but it is still a crystal blue sky day - no clouds, birds, and budding trees. In the low 60s, I think. It felt chilly when I verged out of the apartment complex for a bit. Exiting proved a bit of an obstacle course - since neighbor felt the need to block the hallway with a very large baby carriage. I resisted the temptation to knock it down the steps, and instead pushed it aside. When I returned - it's was gone and no one was in sight - thankfully. This is the neighbor who doesn't appear to think wearing a mask applies to him. Meanwhile I get mask edicts from Crazy Company constantly.



Flowers aren't quite in evidence yet - but they are there. And the trees are budding.

I was bored at work - I'm constantly waiting on things from folks. So I wandered about to read Justice League Movie Comparisons. White male film geeks are interesting - they don't pick up on some of the same things that I did, or many others did. Their focus appears to be on film aspect, color scheme, score, and plot mechanics. Mine - was on character development, character arcs, dialogue placement, and action sequences/interactions between characters. I really don't care if a film is light or dark that much - it's not number one in my requirements. If it was - I wouldn't watch half the television shows and films that I've watched over the years.
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Oh well, I should discuss this separately from my lockdown posts, shouldn't I? I'm horrible at organizing what I discuss in what post. It's not how I think. Hence the total of this blog - "Spontaneous Musings".



The above picture, assuming of course if you can see it? Is a favorite from yesterday - which I couldn't post yesterday.

Talked to mother - who has managed to get an appointment set up with another specialist in April, April 1 - let's hope that's okay. She has to go back to the other doctor's office to get a release form signed - so that they can release her information to the new doctor for a second opinion. Her primary is also putting together a referral. Mother is very confused - the doctor has in his notes that she shouldn't put weight on her leg, but he told her to put as much as she can stand. Mother kind of needs to walk a little bit to visit father at the long-term health facility. Apparently they had a very nice visit this afternoon - around 3:15, outside. They were supposed to do it at 1:45, but there was some confusion. They told mother she didn't have an appointment, then called her back and apologized - there was miscommunication. So she rescheduled for later in the day, and arranged for transportation over there.
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Life is painful for everyone. It's just different, you know? I try not to do the comparison game. But I keep falling into that trap. ( Read more... )

Life is not fair. At all. We're all on different journeys. It's like we are handed hand of cards when we're born. And we get certain challenges - meant specifically for us. Seemingly random. And from our perspective painful, and not always fair - but they are lessons, challenges, opportunities to learn from. And it's different for everyone. No one gets the same ones.

I like that idea. It calms me, and makes life easier somehow. The idea that we're all here to learn. And mistakes are kind of par for the course.

Justice League Films Comparison - The Importance of Tonal Shifts

So, I've been reading comparisons of Justice League movies, and more and more tempted to do my own. Mainly because they aren't satisfying me. I do however agree with one of the reviews/comparisons - from Slate who states that doing a back to back comparison of the Whedon Cut and Snyder Cut is akin to attending a 6 hour film class. And they should teach it in film courses. (Although Scalzi does make a good point that there are better films to do this with - such as The Magnificient Ambersons - which was a film yanked from Orson Wells, and then he did his director's cut of it. My only issue with that - is I find Wells films deathly dull. Talk about dark films, where the director is obsessively self-indulgent, and more into visual metaphors than story. I'm not a fan of Wells style of movie making, but white male film geeks adore him for some reason that I've never understood. I've debated this with so many white male film geeks over the years. Female film geeks tend to prefer people like Jane Campion. Film geeks like all geeks are a rowdy argumentative bunch that rarely agree on anything - but art is subjective.)

I've always been fascinated with subjective vs. the objective elements of the art form, and the degree to which it can validly be reviewed or critiqued. Much like a fictional novel, a painting, or any other form of art for that matter.

Film also as an art form - fascinates me. I am a frustrated film major. My favorite courses in undergrad often focused on the analysis of films, television shows, or visual medium. And I spent a lot of time as a child watching old movies on television, or going to the movies. I love movies.
I like to lose myself in them - in someone else's head for a bit.
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Oh, almost forgot - the ironic thing about all of this is way back in the 1990s, Whedon got upset with how the Kuzie's ruined Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He'd sold his script to them, and they directed it, and rewrote his script - actually Donald Sutherland, Rutgher Hauer, and Paul Stuben all had a hand in it, improvising lines. Whedon was furious and incredibly upset with how they ruined his movie.

Cue about thirty years later? Whedon does the same thing to Zack Snyder's Justice League, and except the actors and Director are furious with him, along with Christopher Nolan.